Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service, and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch the success of one's enemy; its wages to be sure of it.

Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.

Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.

The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.

Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.